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Asia » Thailand July 30th 2014

Soooo.....you wanna start a travel blog, but you are only traveling with your iPad and camera...no laptop, and iPads weren't made to connect to anything...so how do you get your photos to your iPad?? Turns out I needed something called an Apple Computer Adapter kit. Tried to buy it in SFO, and at HK airports - no luck. Asked about it at my hotel and asked my guide...she told me to go to 'Pantip Plaza.' After the Jim Thompson house (see prior blog post)..I asked around and got directions...decided to walk. Yes it was humid, but I felt oddly ok...and so I walked, and walked...first along a canal, then along a street that appeared to have no place for humans to cross, asked directions every few blocks. Luckily school seemed to be letting out, and the ... read more
Pantip Plaza2

Asia » Thailand July 29th 2014

My first Travel blog ever! SwadeeKa!!! or hello in Thai (CF - thanks for the spelling!) I'm sitting in my hotel room looking out over the Chao Praya River. I'm up 13 floors - yes - I'm on the 13th floor...but in my world that's good luck so I think it's kinda cool. Arrived last night - wow - getting here was amazingly smooth! Yes it took 24 hours door to door, but I flew business class (used a gazillion miles) from SFO to Hong Kong. Whisked through security in SFO, got settled into my nifty 'personal pod' on the upper level of a 747. I kid you not - I was only of only two female passengers up there...all men, basically all on business, how exciting - not! 14 hour flight...didn't go by in a ... read more
Quintessential Tourist
Getting Silk from Cocoons
Koi pond at J Thompson house




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